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BK

2nd ed.

Dublin : Gill & Macmillan, c2000

144 s. : il., mapy ; 25 cm

ISBN 978-0-7171-3093-1 (brož.)

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Contents // Contributors // FOREWORD // Part! Origins 10 // Sean Duffy // Celtic Ireland 14 // The Arrival of Christianity 16 // Early Peoples and Politics 18 // The Golden Age 20 // Ireland and Europe 22 // The Viking Wars 24 // The Age of Brian Boru 26 // Reform of the Church 28 // Ireland before the Normans 30 // Part II The Conquest of Ireland 32 // Brendan Smith // The English Invasion 36 // Expansion of the Colony 38 // Irish Resistance 40 // The Decline of English Power 42 // The Gaelic Revival 44 // The Late Middle Ages 46 // The Growth of Dublin 48 // Part III Reformation to Restoration 50 // Colm Lennon and Raymond Gillespie // The Protestant Reformation 54 // Elizabethan Administration 56 // Plantation and Resistance 58 // O’Neill’s Rising 60 // Jacobean Plantations 62 // The Rising of 1641 64 // Cromwell’s Campaigns and Administration 66 // The Williamite Revolution 68 // 8 // CONTENTS // PART IV From Splendour to Famine 70 // James Kelly // The Penal Laws 76 // The Georgian Economy 78 // The Government of Ireland, 1692-1785 80 // The 1798 Rebellion 82 // Catholic Emancipation and Repeal 84 // Nineteenth-Century Catholicism 86 // The Pre-Famine Economy 88 // Emigration to 1845 90 // The Great Famine 92 // The Decline of the Irish Language 94 // PART V Modern Ireland 96 // Gabriel Doherty // Post-Famine Emigration 102 // Economic Development before the Great War 104 // The Growth of Irish Nationalism 106 // Government Policy 108 // The Ulster Question

110 // The Great War and the Easter Rising 112 // Separation 1916-23 114 // Cumann na nGaedheal 116 // Fianna Fail 118 // The ’40s and ’50s: Turmoil and Malaise 120 // Northern Ireland 122 // The ’60s: Economic and Social Change 124 // The ’70s and the ’80s: Political and Social Instability 126 // The Northern Crisis 128 // Ireland in the ’90s 130 // Chronology 132 // Further Reading 136 // Index 138 // Acknowledgements 144